Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative represented an unprecedented effort by Washington to stabilize fragile democracies in Latin America by shoring up the Colombian and Mexican security forces, respectively. From Peril to Partnership evaluates the extent to which the US government achieved its stabilization objectives. US assistance was more helpful to Colombia than Mexico, which adopted a more militarized approach. This book highlights the importance of the private sector, party system, and security bureaucracy in facilitating progress-and how their absence obstructs it.
Angelo M. Codevilla Book order
Angelo M. Codevilla was a professor of international relations at Boston University. His work focused on international relations from the perspectives of history and national character. He previously served in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Foreign Service, and on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. During his tenure at Stanford's Hoover Institution, he wrote books on war, intelligence, and the character of nations.




- 2024
- 2023
The Ruling Class
- 184 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The book explores the widespread sentiment among Americans regarding the Ruling Class, highlighting feelings of dehumanization, economic hardship, and moral decline caused by this elite group. It delves into the public's desire for change and the growing frustration with the current power dynamics. Through analysis and commentary, it addresses the implications of these perceptions and the potential for a collective movement against the ruling elite.
- 2022
America's Rise and Fall among Nations
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Minding our own business,while leaving other peoples to mind theirs, was the basis of the United States'successful foreign policy from 1815 to 1910. Best described in the works ofJohn Quincy Adams and carried out by his successors throughout the nineteenth century,this is the foreign policy by which America grew prosperous and in peace. Thispolicy also remains the commonsense philosophy of most Americans today. America's Rise and Fallamong Nations contrasts this original "America First" foreign policy with theprinciples and results of the following hundred years of "progressive" foreign policywhich suddenly arrived with the election of Woodrow Wilson as president in 1912.The author explains why the many fruitless American wars--large and small--which followedWilson's conduct of World War I always resulted in a failed peace and oftenmore conflicts abroad and also the loss of the domestic peace each failurecaused among Americans. Finally, America's Rise and Fallamong Nations examines how John Quincy Adams's insights are applicable to ourcurrent domestic and international environments and exemplify what "AmericaFirst" can mean in our time. They chart a clear path to escape America's previouseleven disastrous decades of so-called "progressive" international relations.
- 2000
Between the Alps and a Hard Place
Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History
- 248 pages
- 9 hours of reading
In Between the Alps and a Hard Place , Professor Angelo M. Codevilla reveals how the true history of the Swiss in World War II has been buried beneath a modern campaign of moral blackmail that has accused Switzerland of secretly supporting Nazi Germany and sharing culpability for the Holocaust.